WVU In First Big 12 Road Tilt

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - West Virginia makes its first Big 12 road trip of the year when the Mountaineers travel to Austin to face Texas on Wednesday night at Frank Erwin Center. Tipoff is set for 9 p.m. and the game will be televised nationally on ESPN2.

Game Notes• West Virginia will be playing its first game in the state of Texas against the Longhorns.

• The two teams will be meeting for the fourth time in series play. All of the three previous meetings were on neutral courts and decided by three points or less.

• Bob Huggins is 10-7 in Big 12 Conference games. He is 0-1 at WVU, and his Kansas State team posted a 10-6 Big 12 record in 2006-07. The Wildcats finished fourth in the Big 12 in 2007.

• West Virginia is 54-37 under Bob Huggins in conference regular season games.

• Sixty-three of Bob Huggins’ 127 victories have been away from the WVU Coliseum.

• Bob Huggins has posted 22 conference road victories in five-plus years at WVU, an average of 4.4 per season.

• West Virginia is playing its first season in the Big 12 Conference in 2012-13. The Mountaineers were members of the Big East Conference for the previous 17 seasons.

• The Mountaineers have three transfers on the roster in 2012-13. Junior center Aaric Murray led La Salle in scoring (15.2), rebounding (7.7) and blocks (2.3) in 2010-11. Sophomore guard Juwan Staten led the Atlantic 10 in assists with 190 as a freshman at Dayton in 2010-11. Senior guard Matt Humphrey has one year left after transferring from Boston College, where he was second on the team in scoring at 10.3 points per game.

• WVU has won 89 of its last 111 games against unranked teams, including 46 of its last 51 at the WVU Coliseum.

• Bob Huggins, with 717 career wins, needs two wins to tie Don Haskins for 19th place on the NCAA Division I all-time winningest coaches list. Huggins recorded win No. 700 against Missouri State on Dec. 22, 2011. Huggins became the 20th Division I head coach to win 700 career games. Huggins’ record now stands at 717-273 in his 31st season as a head coach.

• WVU has made five straight NCAA appearances and seven in the last eight seasons. In the year the Mountaineers didn’t make the NCAA tournament (2007), they won the NIT.

• Bob Huggins has led WVU to the NCAA championship in each of his first five seasons. The last time WVU made five consecutive NCAA appearances was from 1955-60, when the Mountaineers went six consecutive years to the NCAA tourney.

• West Virginia has won 62 of its last 74 games when holding its opponents to 69 points or less.

• West Virginia is 37-0 under Bob Huggins when shooting 50 percent or better from the field.

• West Virginia is 103-21 under Bob Huggins when leading at halftime.

• West Virginia is 110-13 under Bob Huggins when leading by 10 or more points in a game.

• West Virginia is 102-5 under Bob Huggins when posting a higher shooting percentage than its opponent.

• West Virginia has won 71 of its last 82 games when scoring 70 or more points in a game.

• The Mountaineers are 94-14 under Bob Huggins when scoring 70 or more points in a game.

• West Virginia is 106-24 under Bob Huggins when outrebounding its opponent.

• West Virginia has allowed its opponent to shoot 50 percent or better only 30 times under Bob Huggins (189 games).

• Bob Huggins has wins over 20 ranked teams since he has been the head coach at West Virginia, including eight over a Top-10 ranked team in the last five seasons.

• Twenty-four of the last 25 senior members of the men’s basketball team have graduated on time or early since 2004.

• West Virginia has a 125-30 (.810) record against teams in their first visit to the Coliseum.

• West Virginia is 64-15 in the WVU Coliseum under Bob Huggins, including a 32-14 mark in league games at home.

• WVU is 473-135 (.779) all-time at the WVU Coliseum and 94-18 at the WVU Coliseum in the last eight seasons.

• Under Bob Huggins in the WVU Coliseum, WVU is averaging 75.6 ppg, while holding its opponents to 61.6 ppg.

• WVU’s average margin of victory at the WVU Coliseum under Bob Huggins is +14.0.

• The Mountaineers have won 46 of their last 63 conference games at the WVU Coliseum.

• WVU is 16-17 all-time on Jan. 9. The Mountaineers are 480-305 all-time in the month of January.